Richard Long: Harlem Renaissance Personages & Haiti
The Drescher Center for the Humanities at UMBC presents:
The Daphne Harrison Lecture
Richard Long, Atticus Haygood Professor emeritus, Emory University
This presentation will provide an account of the Haitian contacts and connections of several distinguished Harlem Renaissance figures, most of whom are included in Alain Locke's The New Negro, the principal compendium of the movement. Among these figures are Locke himself, W E B Du Bois,Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.